Okay so a few days after writing the previous post and after a conversation with my best friends...the Holy Spirit, I believe, answered the question for me. The question about why the desires of the flesh are still so much stronger that the desires of the Spirit, with in us. Most of us are at a stage where we know right from wrong. We know what the word says and how to obey it. We know what we are supposed to stay away from and what we are not supposed to yield to. But the fact that we “just want to” is an issue...but why? Well let’s go back to the beginning....that's right: the Forbidden fruit. Genesis 3:1 "And he [the serpent] said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" and verse 5 "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." and verse 6 "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat..." so what is my point? My point is God designed certain things to be done a certain way and in a certain order or time. There was a reason he said don’t eat of the forbidden tree. He knew the consequences! For instance...sex...is only supposed to be between a man and a woman after matrimony. But we engage in it before marriage, therefore yielding to and biting the forbidden fruit which now produces a tug of war between what is right and good and what feels right and good with in us. God knew that our bodies would become chemically attached to those feeling and would continue to seek that satisfaction. We are torn between that fleshful temptation and the Spirit. We are like Eve, we knew we shouldn't...we knew it was wrong but we took the bite anyway. And God knew that we would struggle with this, but it was not intended to be a struggle. It’s like trying to put a left shoe on a right foot. The shoe is designed and crafted for a particular foot of a particular shape. But we instead, in haste and curiosity…try to force that left shoe on the wrong foot and struggle, when in reality the struggle is not necessary (okay I know that was kind of out there but I think you get that point). He designed sex to be a joyous time between husband and wife…for them to long and desire for each other once they become one. But we did this backwards...we gave in to the sexual temptation and now the longing that a wife or husband should have for a spouse we have for our non-married counterparts. And now we are struggling with the desires and the pull of the flesh because we bit the apple. God knew this would happen and tried to warn us...but we didn't listen. So our desires are natural but they may be out of order...
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